With 14 coaches, 28 players, one commissioner and two full days to interview them all, the ACC’s annual preseason football media event usually ends up becoming an exercise in information overload. This year’s recently completed ACC Kickoff in Greensboro was no exception.

There were so many storylines discussed that it might take half the season to write about them all. So instead of trying, I’ve narrowed the topics down to my top 10 takeaways from a busy weekend at Grandover Resort. After muddling through hours of football talk on my recording devise – an exercise that took nearly a week to complete – here they from Nos. 10 to 1:

5. It’s going to be a very long season for Wake Forest.

With the loss of Michael Campanaro and other top players, tough times may be ahead for Wake Forest in 2014

As overwhelming a favorite as Florida State is to be the best team in the ACC this season, Wake Forest it just as sure a bet to be the worst.

Of the 113 voters that cast ballots in the league’s preseason poll on Sunday, 97 of them picked the Deacons to finish last in the Atlantic Division. The highest anyone picked them was fourth. Their 136 total votes were six fewer than last place Virginia in the Coastal, making Wake the 14th best team in a 14-team league.

There’s good reason for such low expectations. The cupboard left by former coach Jim Grobe, who stepped down after a fifth straight losing season, is incredibly bare.

Among the Deacons’ losses were wide receiver Michael Campanaro, whose 229 catches were the most in school history, quarterback Tanner Price, leading rusher Josh Harris and sack leader Nikita Whitlock. The team also lost its most promising returning rusher and receiver when DeAndre Martin and Sherman Ragland III were dismissed from the team shortly after Dave Clawson was hired to replace Grobe.

Despite cornerback Kevin Johnson’s proclamation that the Deacons’ focus is on being “a great team this year” and that he and his teammates “hold ourselves to a standard of winning an ACC Championship this season,” Clawson’s assessment of Wake’s chances seem to be more in line with that of the media.

“We were a 4-8 team with 10 starters back, we graduated a four-year starter at quarterback, the school’s all-time leading receiver and we don’t have an established tailback or tight end,” he said. “I mean, I live in the real world, but that’s a challenge. Our job is to maximize what we have every year with the team we have. That’s a great challenge for us right now.”

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